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Anthologization | Dorothy Wellesley | Horses, having gone forward into Poems of Ten Years, 1924-1934, was selected by W. B. Yeats
for The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 1935, and by Philip Larkin
for The Oxford Book... |
Anthologization | Michael Field | The Poetry Bookshop
issued A Selection From the Poems of Michael Field in 1923, bringing together pieces from their published poetry collections and plays, such as Underneath the Bough, Callirrhoë; Fair Rosamund, Wild... |
Anthologization | Katharine Tynan | In 1895 (the same year that KT
published Christmas Verses) W. B. Yeats
printed some of her poems, including The Children of Lir, in his anthology A Book of Irish Verse. Hinkson, Pamela. “The Friendship of Yeats and Katharine Tynan, II: Later Days of the Irish Literary Movement”. The Fortnightly, No. 1043 n.s., pp. 323 - 36. 324-5 |
Cultural formation | Florence Farr | W. B. Yeats
introduced FF
to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
, a secret occult society based on Rosicrucian beliefs and practices. Gilbert, R. A., and Florence Farr. “Preface to the Collectanea Hermetica Series”. Egyptian Magic, Aquarian Press, 1982, p. vi. vi Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe, 1975. 71 |
Cultural formation | John Millington Synge | He first met William Butler Yeats
, one of two major Irish literary contemporaries who also rejected religion in their youth, in 1896. (The other scoffer at religion, James Joyce
, he met only once... |
Cultural formation | Elinor Glyn | During the late 1920s and early 30s, EG
was caught up in the wave of Spiritualism (the belief that the living can contact the dead through mediums) that had been gaining ground in England particularly... |
Cultural formation | Annie Besant | AB
's fascination with Theosophy and its tenets of reincarnation and karma developed quickly in the year after her first meeting with Blavatsky. Another who shared her interest was W. B. Yeats
. Taylor, Anne. Annie Besant: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1992. 242, 253 |
Dedications | Dorothy Wellesley | This selection of poems (sometimes of excerpts) comes entirely from Poems of Ten Years, except for the opening piece, Fire: An Incantation, which was written in May 1935 Wellesley, Dorothy, and W. B. Yeats. Selections from the Poems of Dorothy Wellesley. Macmillan, 1936. v, 11 |
Education | Jennifer Johnston | JJ
began going to school at the tender age of three: she had problems with her sight and it was felt that this would teach her to recognise her letters. She attended Park House School... |
Education | Enid Bagnold | At the age of fifteen EB
won a school poetry competition and was rewarded with a visit with W. B. Yeats
. Years later, she recalled that he advised her never to interest herself in... |
Education | Bessie Head | The regime included plenty of household chores and caning as a punishment (with both of which Bessie was familiar), while the curriculum featured singing, drawing, cookery, dressmaking, nature study, and gardening as well as more... |
Education | Margaret Kennedy | During her last year at Cheltenham
, MK
heard W. B. Yeats
lecture on the Irish poet and playwright J. M. Synge
. Biographer Violet Powell
gives Synge's initialswrongly as J. B. Powell, Violet. The Constant Novelist. W. Heinemann, 1983. 28 |
Education | Adrienne Rich | |
Education | Emily Hickey | She demonstrated an early interest in reading. Scott
, Tennyson
, and Barrett Browning
numbered among her early favourites. Her father, however, did not allow her to read Shakespeare
, as he was repelled by... |
Education | Julia O'Faolain | At junior school JOF
's talent for mimicry won her two medals for poetry reading: an Elizabethan poem in an English accent and from W. B. Yeats
in an Irish one. O’Faolain, Julia. Trespassers, A Memoir. Faber and Faber, 2014. 114 |